It's better, but AMD still has a long way to go
Published: 4th December 2020 | Source: Puget Systems | Author: Mark Campbell
Puget Systems reveal AMD's improved Premiere Pro performance with their Radeon RX 6800 Series
Puget Systems, the US-based system builder, has a team of certifiable benchmarking masters on their staff, a group who work tirelessly to tell their buyers what they need for their future workstations. To prove their expertise, they provide a wealth of information on their website about their benchmarking practices and benchmarking methodology. Beyond that, they have also created application-specific benchmarking tools for both internal and external use.
With the launch of AMD's new Radeon RX 6800 series of graphics cards, Puget Systems benchmarked Abobe Premiere Pro to see if Radeon could surpass Nvidia's current offerings. Now, their results are in, and they are positive for Radeon, but not overwhelmingly so. The RX 6800 series is much stronger than their 5000-series predecessors, but Nvidia still wins in terms of ram Premiere Pro performance.
We will only look at some of Puget Systems' results in this article and will direct you to Puget Systems' website to see more of their benchmark results. In certain workflows, AMD's RX 6800 and 6800XT deliver performance gains of over 40% in some workloads over the Radeon RX 5700 XT and Radeon RX Vega 64. Sadly, this is not enough performance for AMD to catch up with Nvidia.
With the launch of AMD's new Radeon RX 6800 series of graphics cards, Puget Systems benchmarked Abobe Premiere Pro to see if Radeon could surpass Nvidia's current offerings. Now, their results are in, and they are positive for Radeon, but not overwhelmingly so. The RX 6800 series is much stronger than their 5000-series predecessors, but Nvidia still wins in terms of ram Premiere Pro performance.
We will only look at some of Puget Systems' results in this article and will direct you to Puget Systems' website to see more of their benchmark results. In certain workflows, AMD's RX 6800 and 6800XT deliver performance gains of over 40% in some workloads over the Radeon RX 5700 XT and Radeon RX Vega 64. Sadly, this is not enough performance for AMD to catch up with Nvidia.
(See more data on Puget Systems' website )
While Nvidia's RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 are better Premiere Pro GPUs than their Radeon counterparts in most cases, team Radeon does have an advantage in some workflows due to their large allotment of VRAM. 16GB can be very useful for 8K workflows, and the RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT are very cost-effective if you are looking for 16GB of video memory. That said, the 10GB of VRAM on an RTX 3080 will be more than enough for many users.
(See more data on Puget Systems' website )
AMD has made some huge performance strides since the release of the Radeon RX 5700 XT and Radeon VII graphics cards, but they haven't improved at a fast enough rate to defeat Nvidia within Premiere Pro. That said, AMD has stressed to us that the Radeon RX 6800 series is for gaming, not for content creation.
You can join the discussion on Puget Systems showcasing AMD's performance improvements within Premiere Pro with their Radeon RX 6000 series on the OC3D Forums .
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04-12-2020, 12:23:45
AlienALXRubbish then, basically. AMD have stated they are just for gaming, yet are charging pretty much the same or more price per perf as Nvidia and lack all of those features. Quote
04-12-2020, 12:42:53
KingNosserI have to agree the msrp is higher than i'd like and on the AIB's they are pricey, but it will depend on how they improve over time if that changes DX12 ultimate once out might make them a little better. Saying that the coolers on them are a lot better than the past so it's not all bad but they should have been more agressive price wise then the AIB's would be more inline with the nvidia founders.
When it comes to the nvidia side the 3060ti is good value and the 3070/80 should have had more ram but they do give a fair few features but the 3090 I don't think is priced fairly at all.
While I may have won my 6800 i can honestly say at the prices they are i'd most likely have gone 3060ti after that review, but i am happy that this time for the next fair few years i'll be all AMD build for a change.
I'll at least know come the next time around how i feel about nvidia, thou i am on the panel for them not sure how they will like me being amd in the surveys they will send over time. Quote
When it comes to the nvidia side the 3060ti is good value and the 3070/80 should have had more ram but they do give a fair few features but the 3090 I don't think is priced fairly at all.
While I may have won my 6800 i can honestly say at the prices they are i'd most likely have gone 3060ti after that review, but i am happy that this time for the next fair few years i'll be all AMD build for a change.
I'll at least know come the next time around how i feel about nvidia, thou i am on the panel for them not sure how they will like me being amd in the surveys they will send over time. Quote
04-12-2020, 12:52:54
AngryGoldfishQuote:
Originally Posted by AlienALX  Rubbish then, basically. AMD have stated they are just for gaming, yet are charging pretty much the same or more price per perf as Nvidia and lack all of those features. |
04-12-2020, 13:25:17
AlienALXI know a lot of reviewers seemed desperately pleased with AMD but tbh? I think that was more that it would simply bring Nvidia's prices down a bit (well, a lot) than anything else. AMD just seem to have this blasé attitude about it all.
Which would be fine if they were cheap. Or, even cheaper. But they are not. They are missing a ton of features and it almost seems like they have given people a choice. Either tank cards with crap gaming performance or gaming cards with crap everything else performance. Which you know? would normally be totally fine if they were like, cheaper enough to represent the loss in features.
Now I know RT isn't that important. Yet. You just wait until Cyberpunk comes out, and has anything even resembling better visuals with RT. All of a sudden it will be the most important thing since the bread slicer. But tbh? I couldn't even give a toss about that (yet, give me like 6 days is it? to make my mind up) but the encoding performance is still totally crap too.
These cards just feel like the lesser of the two evils, only in ways the worst because they just don't have the feature set. It kinda makes you wonder who really cares how much that they can render Fortnite at 600 FPS. Quote
Which would be fine if they were cheap. Or, even cheaper. But they are not. They are missing a ton of features and it almost seems like they have given people a choice. Either tank cards with crap gaming performance or gaming cards with crap everything else performance. Which you know? would normally be totally fine if they were like, cheaper enough to represent the loss in features.
Now I know RT isn't that important. Yet. You just wait until Cyberpunk comes out, and has anything even resembling better visuals with RT. All of a sudden it will be the most important thing since the bread slicer. But tbh? I couldn't even give a toss about that (yet, give me like 6 days is it? to make my mind up) but the encoding performance is still totally crap too.
These cards just feel like the lesser of the two evils, only in ways the worst because they just don't have the feature set. It kinda makes you wonder who really cares how much that they can render Fortnite at 600 FPS. Quote
04-12-2020, 13:44:44
KingNosserAs gaming cards they are solid, the feeling i get atm is the games that are out mostly are not optimised for amd at all, thou yes if they were nvidia would still be better but they aren't bad cards as gaming cards, but that's why cdna is going to be a thing.
The prices are the key part the reference cards are almost right, but the AIB's are to high but then nvidia's AIB's are also high, it's just how things are atm.
I can see them improving in the same way i can see nvidia will improve it's a bit early to know where they will land but yep nvidia are ahead, but come next time around nvidia i feel will have far more to worry about.
Cyberpunk doesn't need RT to be a good game, while amd aparently won't be supported on day 1 i guess it's like the next gen consoles won't be either, it'll come thou but most likely next year.
On topic thou i don't see puget selling a ton of rdna2 systems, but for sure alot of amd cpu's. Quote
The prices are the key part the reference cards are almost right, but the AIB's are to high but then nvidia's AIB's are also high, it's just how things are atm.
I can see them improving in the same way i can see nvidia will improve it's a bit early to know where they will land but yep nvidia are ahead, but come next time around nvidia i feel will have far more to worry about.
Cyberpunk doesn't need RT to be a good game, while amd aparently won't be supported on day 1 i guess it's like the next gen consoles won't be either, it'll come thou but most likely next year.
On topic thou i don't see puget selling a ton of rdna2 systems, but for sure alot of amd cpu's. Quote